Princess Diana

A court has ordered the French authorities to pay Mohamed Al Fayed 5,000 euros (7,500 dollars) over an inquiry into Princess Diana's fatal car crash, according to a judgment seen by AFP on Friday. Al Fayed, the billionaire owner of London's upmarket Harrods department store, has long claimed Diana and Dodi Fayed, her boyfriend and Al Fayed's son, were murdered as part of an establishment plot. He said he was delighted with Friday's ruling, which said delays to an inquiry into the 1997 crash in Paris had amounted to a "denial of justice". Speaking in London, Al Fayed said: "I am delighted that the ... Read Full Story

Mohamed Al Fayed, owner of plush London emporium Harrods, told The Sunday Times he was ready to become the first president of an independent Scotland. The Egyptian tycoon, 80, who owns an estate in the Scottish Highlands, said he was urging his "fellow Scots" to detach themselves from "the English and their terrible politicians". Fayed, who has been repeatedly refused a British passport, said he hoped to be offered Scottish citizenship if a planned referendum on Scottish independence leads to Scotland leaving the United Kingdom -- and then becoming a republic. "You Scots have been living in a coma for too long," he told ... Read Full Story

THE PUBLISHER of a Princess Diana comic book has hit back at critics who branded it disrespectful. Female Force: Princess Diana, a biography told in comic panel format, was released by Bluewater Productions in July as part of a series chronicling the lives of influential women. Margaret Funnell, co-founder of the Diana Circle UK, a group dedicated to the princess's memory, has attacked the inclusion of references to the princess's personal troubles and her untimely death, including an illustration of the Paris tunnel where she was killed in a car crash. Today, Bluewater publisher Darren Davis defended the book, telling the Coventry Telegraph: "Bluewater ... Read Full Story

THE PUBLISHER of a Princess Diana comic book has hit back at critics who branded it disrespectful. Female Force: Princess Diana, a biography told in comic panel format, was released by Bluewater Productions in July as part of a series chronicling the lives of influential women. Margaret Funnell, co-founder of the Diana Circle UK, a group dedicated to the princess's memory, has attacked the inclusion of references to the princess's personal troubles and her untimely death, including an illustration of the Paris tunnel where she was killed in a car crash. Today, Bluewater publisher Darren Davis defended the book, telling the Coventry Telegraph: "Bluewater ... Read Full Story

Two key witnesses refuse to testify at Diana inquest By DENNIS RICE Last updated at 15:49 07 October 2007 Comments ( 8 ) Add to My Stories Two key witnesses to the events leading up to the death of Princess Diana will not give evidence to the inquest, it was revealed last night. Jacques Langevin, a paparazzi photographer who took the last picture of Diana outside the Paris Ritz, has apparently reversed an earlier decision to appear as a witness. He is joined on the sidelines by French taxi driver Le Van Thanh, who many believe was the driver of the Fiat Uno that ... Read Full Story